Hiraeth.: the existential moron's lockdown novel

By Haydn Wilks

The Main Character (Welsh, Virgo, ENTP, emo, 32, M) abandons the decadent neo-colonialist lifestyle of an English-as-a-Foreign-Language Teacher to pursue the workshy millennial ideal of life as a digital nomad.
A quick visit to Wales becomes months and months and etc. of escalating and easing lockdowns, marathon video chats, Valleys bike rides & ticket-free train travel, socially-distanced booze & weed sessions, and legally-questionable house and shed visits with his Dad & the Boys, mental disequilibrium fuelling an obsession with becoming a generation-defining best-selling author:
the Welsh Irvine Welsh, the ginger Jack Kerouac, the broke Bret Easton Ellis, the homebound Hunter S Thompson, penning Fear & Loathing in the Living Room: a Tao Lin-eclipsing autofictional Voice of His Generation.
hiraeth n.] Welsh] an intense sense of longing for your homeland.

HIRAETH. alt] ALL CAPS.] an existential moron's lockdown novel; Proust-like chronicling of life during a once-in-a-century viral outbreak - novel autofiction exploiting the millions dead from a novel virus to bring its author closer to enablement of his delusions than ever before.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 183808312X
• ISBN13: 9781838083120
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Dead Bird Press
• Length: 714 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"